References for Hosea 4:4

5
You will stumble by day; and at nighttime so will your prophet, and I will destroy your mother.

6
My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, so I will reject you from serving me as a priest. Since you have forgotten the Instruction of your God, so also I will forget your children.

7
The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their glory for shame.

8
They feed on the sin of my people; they set their hearts on evil things.

9
The priest will be just like the people; I will punish them for their ways, and judge them for their deeds.

10
They will eat but not be satisfied; they will have sex like prostitutes, but they will not have children, because they have rejected the LORD to devote themselves to

References for Hosea 4:11

12
My people take advice from a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them predictions. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have left God to follow other gods.

13
They offer sacrifices on mountaintops, and make entirely burned offerings on hills; they offer sacrifices under various green trees, because their shade is pleasant. Therefore, your daughters act like prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

14
I will not punish your daughters because they act like prostitutes, nor your daughters-in-law because they commit adultery; for the men themselves visit prostitutes, and offer sacrifices with consecrated workers at temples; so now the people without sense must come to ruin.

15
Israel, even though you act like a prostitute, don't let Judah become guilty. Don't enter into Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, and don't swear, "As the LORD lives."

16
Like a stubborn cow Israel is stubborn. Now the LORD will tend them,b as the LORD tends a lamb in a pasture.